FZ Kuno

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since February 19, 2001

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February 19, 2001, on Producing Streaming Video (and Audio) for the Web:
ANALOGUE VIDEO IS THE ANSWER! I might as well say it as it is: I hate DV. people will gladly pay 1000+ US$ for a camera because a salesperson has told them it's the newest in digital video, and since it is digital the quality is perfect.. CRAP! for 1000+ dollars I could easily find you a camera that could kick an equally prices DV cam off the throne. he.. and these sorry sob's then go on to complain about dropped frames and jerky video when they try to capture their video at 3.6 megs/s to their crammed IDE harddrive with FAT32 in tiny clusters. Dammit.. and talk about getting it out to DV again.. well there are import restrictions on DV in Europe so you have to buy a widget, which is a form of ROM hacking device to get your DV port to work in both directions.. by default they must be locked so that consumers can't input DV to the camera. (because it has the potential of high quality piracy), and they seldom work properly.. and all these people wanna do is to stream a little ...